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chaetic

chaetic adjective: having long thick hairs or bristles.

Adjective

chaetic (not comparable)

  1. Having long thick hairs or bristles.
    • Aporous sensilla with flexible sockets, presenting various lengths and shapes (bristle, trichoid, styloconic, chaetic or basiconic) consist mainly of exocuticular material and show no substructures in thin sections and cross-fractures⁷⁰.2023 January 12, Artur Taszakowski, Adrian Masłowski, Kent M. Daane, Jolanta Brożek, “Closer view of antennal sensory organs of two Leptoglossus species (Insecta, Hemiptera, Coreidae)”, in Scientific...

Origin of chaetic

From Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē, “mane; loose, flowing hair”) + -ic.

Questions about chaetic

What does chaetic mean?
Chaetic means having long thick hairs or bristles.
What part of speech is chaetic?
Chaetic is an adjective.

Words near chaetic in the dictionary

  1. chaeta
  2. chaetae
  3. chaetal
  4. chaetetid
  5. chaetetids
  6. chaetic
  7. chaetiferous
  8. chaetiform
  9. chaetiger
  10. chaetigerous
  11. chaetigers

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